Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Holloway castlen.

alsothe Castle, royal palace of Holloway[before its mid-20C+ remodelling the gateway of the original Holloway prison (now England’s main women’s prison) had ‘castellated’ architecture, copied in part from Caesar’s Tower, Warwick Castle; the pub across the road is still called the Holloway Castle]

[late 19C–1930s] Holloway prison.

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